Social and ethical issues

This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe.

Prostitution is still the subject of intense controversy among feminists but theoretical and political analyses are often only loosely grounded in empirical research.

This new introduction to ethics is written for students who are approaching philosophy for the first time.

Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders.

Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged.

This book marks a radical and powerful intervention in traditional arguments about pornography.

This is a major contribution to feminist theory and debate, addressing issues such as sexual violence, social violence and hatred of foreigners in a lucid and highly original way.

Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of 'youth' and 'adolescence' in recent British and North American research.

With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important.

This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias.

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

Education is a crucially important social institution, closely correlated with wealth, occupational prestige, psychological well-being, and health outcomes.

Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the transnational a key tool for understanding our world.

This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected.

Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world.

Translated by Ciaran Cronin.

The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings.

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of.

Throughout history, human societies have struggled to ensure that all people have access to sufficient food to lead active and healthy lives.

Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways.

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world.

Throughout human history people have moved across national borders.

The 21st century has brought new and challenging dimensions to our understanding of security and migration.

It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book.

This incisive book provides a succinct overview of the new academic field of citizenship and immigration, as well as presenting a fresh and original argument about changing citizenship in our contemporary human rights era.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month.

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies.

We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work.

The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature.

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers.

The term collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human and personal terms.

Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists writing today.

Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world.

Welfare is an important concept in the social sciences.

The production of 'human waste' or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization.

What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge?

Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality.

Governor Howard Dean of Vermont argues that you have the power to change the future course of America.

In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G.

All the President's Spin, the first book from the editors of the acclaimed nonpartisan website Spinsanity, unmasks the tactics of deception and media manipulation that George W.

For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia.

Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history.

The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future.

"e;Islam's revival is reshaping Egypt and other Arab countries in ways beyond violent politics.

Kamerun im Wandel: Zwangsumsiedlungen, Tribalismus und die Suche nach IdentitätErkunde die verborgenen Wahrheiten hinter den Namen und Identitäten von Duala, Beti, Bamiléké, Fulbe, Bassa, Bakwieri und anderen, und entdecke, wie diese Gruppen durch äußere Kräfte geformt und definiert wurden.

It's been said that if you want a friend in Washington, you should buy a dog.

A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

As Americans choose and install a new president for a new century they could do no better than to read this work by one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency.

A fascinating account of the growing Yes in My Backyard urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world.